Former DEA agent Robert Stutman and editor
emeritus of High Times magazine Steve Hager
debate the legalization of marijuana. The pair
has traveled and debated against each other
for the past 10 years.

Heads vs. Feds

10

IT TAKES

GUTS

2
Nebraska
senators,
business
owners
debate
LB406
DANIEL WHEATON
DN

more closely examine its options and
come up with a better solution.
“You still have a negative outlook
on it,” he said during the meeting.
“You are saying there’s no hope to
make any money on online editions.
This allocation is almost meant to light
a fire beneath the Daily Nebraskan so
that something is done and we don’t
just keep floating along.”
Several CFA members criticized
the subcommittee’s harsh language
in its report for the DN, which said
the paper’s managers needs to change
their ways of “fiscal recklessness.”
“Looking through the letter, it
seems to be very emotionally charged
language,” said CFA member Evan
Marolf. “It’s not that (the DN) is being reckless. Papers everywhere are
struggling right now. I really find it

A much smaller crowd gathered in the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature Thursday to
hear testimony for and against
LB406.
LB406 is the smaller of the
two bills reforming Nebraska’s
tax code. This bill only cuts $395
million in sales tax exemptions
and retains the individual state
income tax while eliminating
the corporate income tax. The
other option, LB405, eliminates
$2.4 billion in sales tax exemptions and eliminates the corporate and individual income tax.
LB405 drew dozens of testifiers
Wednesday in a hearing that
lasted nearly 11 hours.
Sen. Galen Hadley of Kearney, chairman of the Revenue
Committee, actively tried to
speed up the hearing for LB406.
The hearing ended in less than
five hours.
“You gave us way too much
time yesterday, and I’m glad for
that,” Gov. Dave Heineman said
during his brief testimony. “I
stayed up way past my bedtime
to listen.”
Heineman and the two senators who introduced the legislation were joined by only one other
supporter. Heineman and Sens.
Beau McCoy and Brad Ashford of
Omaha reiterated their statements
from yesterday on LB405. The
three men both gave their testimonies within four minutes. Sen.
Burke Harr of Omaha, a member
of the committee, was equally as
subdued. Harr had asked numerous follow-up questions to the
testifiers Wednesday. A coalition
of farmers, businessmen, medical
professionals, nonprofits and other citizens testified against the bill.
“Today, we should hear from
other citizens,” Heineman said.
Many of the bill’s opponents
argued that ending sales tax exemptions would put an unfair
burden on lower and middle class
individuals.
Kathy English, executive vice
president and chief operating officer of Children’s Hospital and
Medical Center in Omaha, said
the bill would harm many of the
people her hospital serves.
English estimated ending the
applicable tax exemptions would
increase costs by 7 percent.
“The last thing families
should face is a barrier preventing
them from helping a family member,” English said.
She said 44 percent of patients at Children’s Hospital are
on Medicare, and those patients
would be adversely affected by
ending exemptions in general.
Carolyn Rooker, executive
director of Voices for Children in
Nebraska, specifically targeted the
earned income tax credit. She explained that people who benefit
from the tax credit often struggle to make ends meet.
“For people working at
minimum wage, every single
penny counts,” Rooker said.
Roger Furrer, a member of
the Community Action of Nebraska, said eliminating the
corporate and income tax makes
Nebraska’s tax system regressive.
“Those who are struggling
will have to pay a greater percentage of their income in taxes,” Fur-

cfa: see page 3

hearing: see page 2

Melissa Lein, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student in forensic entomology, and Karl Reinhard, a professor at the School of Natural Resources, stand in a lab
in Hardin Hall on Thursday. Lein and Reinhard were part of a group that used a special process called acetolysis to determine the time of death of a Sicilian mummy.

UNL researchers study intestines of Sicilian mummies to discover secrets of the past
story by heather haskins | pHOTO BY BETHANY SCHMIDT

A

s one University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor and
his colleagues found out,
you can learn a lot about
a person who lived long ago just by
taking a look at his mummified intestines.

A National Geographic article
that featured Karl Reinhard, a forensic scientist and professor in the
School of Natural Resources, delved
into the research that Reinhard and
others conducted on the intestinal
contents of a Sicilian mummy.

The mummy, named “Piraino 1”,
was one of 26 mummies found in the
Piraino Mother Church’s Sepulcher
of the Priests, located in northeastern
Sicily. The church dates as far back as
the 16th century.
This particular mummy, unlike

other mummies in the crypt, did not
have identifying documentation.
“We don’t know whether he was
a priest or whether he was a person
who was just revered,” Reinhard
said.
Reinhard has been looking at

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Committee for Fees Allocation denies DN budget proposal
CFA members
criticize ‘fiscal
recklessness,’ suggest
alternative funding
Cristina Woodworth
DN
Members of the Committee for Fees
Allocation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln voted down the Daily Nebraskan’s proposal for an increase of
$50,000 in student funding at a threehour meeting Thursday evening.
CFA members voted instead to
keep the DN’s funding the same at
about $109,000 for the 2013-2014 academic year, or $2.49 per student per
semester. The DN currently receives 11
percent of total student fees.

“It’s not our intention to kill the
newspaper,” said CFA member Jared
McKeever. “We do not want to kill the
newspaper as it stands today. We want
to keep a viable news source alive. I
would like to see an online edition of
the DN because I believe that’s where
this is headed.”
In a lengthy debate, CFA members
suggested several alternatives for the
DN rather than increasing the paper’s
student funding, such as printing three
days a week instead of five or printing
an eight-page paper rather than the
usual 10 pages.
Representatives for the DN had
proposed a $50,000 increase in funding to cover printing and distribution
fees, tablet and smartphone website
accessibility, development of apps for
niche content, multimedia equipment,
symposiums and for the creation of a
digital staff.

Andrew Dickinson, DN editor-inchief and a senior journalism major,
said the DN would like to move more
to an online format, but said the paper
can’t do that without having an increase in allocated student fees.
“The print issue is what we’re
holding onto, to keep ourselves from
just plummeting down,” Dickinson
said. “The plummets are something
that are absolutely out of our control.
Nobody has figured out a solution.”
The DN is a Fund A user, meaning UNL students are able to opt out of
paying student fees toward that organization. Other Fund A users include
the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska and the Dailyer
Nebraskan.
Several CFA members said the
extra costs of moving to an online DN
edition should be pulled from the paper’s own reserves, but DN represen-

tatives said those funds would quickly
be depleted.
“We believe the DN should make
an investment in its own future,” CFA
chair Kalby Wehrbein said.
DN manager Dan Shattil said
about $200,000 has already been used
from the paper’s reserve funds to invest in online editions and other expenses.
“We can’t make as much money
with our online edition,” Shattil said.
“Our future financially isn’t online, but
we know the future of journalism is
online. We will be less self-sustaining
in the future and the only way to make
that up is with student fees.”
Shattil said the DN would be able
to generate a maximum of $60,000
with online advertising revenue compared to the $350,000 to $400,000 the
print edition currently brings in.
Wehrbein said the paper needs to

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rer said.
Cassy Fogale, of the Nebraska
Association of Public Employees,
said LB406 would stretch the state’s
ability to fund basic programs.
“Look at Kansas,” Fogale said.
“They passed a similar tax measure
and (are) expected to have a $4.2 billion budget shortfall.”
Sen. Hadley disagreed with
some of Fogale’s claim, saying she
had “real jumps in logic.”
Following the testimony of the
bill’s authors, Harr and John Cederberg discussed how the bill could
affect businesses. Cederberg, representing the Nebraska Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, said the
chamber supports tax reform but
fundamentally disagrees on how
the discussion has gone so far.
Speaking on both bills, Cederberg said it was “bad tax policy,
something we should avoid doing.”
He said he disagreed with the
governor’s notion that a better tax
climate could keep people in Nebraska. He said a drastic change
would be the only way to incentivize business growth.
Cederberg also mentioned his
concerns with how the new laws
would alter young people’s behavior.
“It is difficult for me to identify
taxes that affect younger people
and affect young married families,”
Cederberg said. “They respond to
opportunity.”
Fremont Sen. Charlie Janssen
asked Cederberg which exemptions he’d be willing to end. Cederberg didn’t name any specifics.
He said any tax changes must
not damage any growing portions
of the economy.
“We have the second lowest
unemployment rate,” Cederberg
said. “We don’t want to mess with
that. We don’t want Omaha, Lincoln or Grand Island to compete
with Las Vegas on unemployment.”
Representatives of many businesses spoke out against the bill as
well. Dirk Petersen, general manager of Nucor Steel in Norfolk,
said the bill would drastically increase the costs of production for
his company.
“We need to be competitive
in Nebraska,” Petersen said. “We
would like to see LB406 killed.”
Laura Kapustka, vice president and chief financial officer of
Lincoln Electric Systems, said the
bill would raise the cost of electricity between 1 and 1-and-a-half
percent. She said this would have
the greatest impact on businesses
because the cost would be passed
down to the consumer, resulting
in a comparative disadvantage.
Farmers, ranchers and cattlemen also joined the dissent, saying
the bill would decrease profits for
all people involved in agriculture.
These bills were introduced on
Jan. 18, following Heineman’s announcement on Jan. 15.
Even though the bills have
received significant opposition,
Heineman, McCoy and Ashford still
remain positive.
“The time to act is now,” McCoy
said.
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UNL hosts Heads vs. Feds debate
on marijuana legalization
Steve Hager spoke
in favor of pot while
Robert Stutman
spoke against it

Student election
candidates will
provide information
for voter guide

REECE RISTAU
DN
On Thursday night University
of Nebraska-Lincoln students
voiced their questions on marijuana legalization with a hashtag.
UNL hosted Heads vs. Feds,
a student-led debate on the legalization of marijuana presented by
the University Program Council.
The debate featured Steve Hager,
the former editor-in-chief of High
Times magazine, and Robert Stutman, a former drug enforcement
agency special agent. Hager and
Stutman debated and responded
to questions from the audience
and Twitter.
The debate began with a
video introducing the two debaters, with Stutman having been
called “the most famous narc in
America” by the New York Times
and Hager having been called
“the most famous pothead in
America.”
Stutman and Hager each gave
15-minute opening statements
that were followed by rebuttal.
“The government controlling
marijuana is like someone standing
in a hurricane and the government
telling us the wind is not blowing,”
Hager said. “Marijuana is the true
sacrament of our culture.”
In his argument, Hager listed
the five major points about marijuana legalization he believes are
most important:
• Marijuana makes good
medicine
• Hemp is good for the environment
• America has too big of a
prison system
• Corruption must stop being
funded
• Marijuana contributes to a
culture of no violence
The most important aspect
about the debate, Stutman said,
is that it has nothing to do with
cannabis or drugs.
“Most Americans don’t care
about the culture of marijuana or
its medical uses,” Stutman said.
“They only want it legalized because it’s the recreational drug of
their choice.”
Stutman’s main points included the fact that Americans
are not allowed to grow any other
types of medicine, that ultimately medical marijuana will still
be controlled by pharmaceutical
companies and that of the hundreds of chemicals in marijuana,
only two are beneficial to health.
“Doctors don’t let patients

andrew barry | DN

Editor emeritus of High Times magazine Steve Hager speaks to
the crowd about legalization of marijuana on Thursday evening
in the Centennial room of the Nebraska Union.

Marijuana is a gray
area. You can’t
go back once it’s
legalized. It would be going
farther than before.”
mickey mcconkey

junior advertising major and member of upc

Marijuana is the
only plant in the
world that has been
prohibited for 75 plus years
– alcohol wasn’t even that
long. We need to fight for our
right to grow.”
bill hawkins

farmer for hemp nebraska

vote on what medicine they
take,” Stutman said. He said that
this is why marijuana legalization should not be held up to a
vote.
Students have mixed responses to marijuana legalization
on both sides of the spectrum.
Luke Maher, a junior finance
major is against legalizing the
drug.
“I don’t think it’s a gateway
drug, but it does put a damper on
productivity,” Maher said. “Corporations drug test for a reason.”
Hager refuted Stutman’s
claim that marijuana causes dependency with the idea that jogging, TV and sugar also cause
dependency.

The banter between Stutman
and Hager resulted in Hager inviting Stutman to smoke with
him in California, an invite that
Stutman turned down with a
chuckle.
When asked by an audience
member whether the government
has the right to protect citizens
from themselves, Stutman said
that the government requires
seatbelts to protect people from
themselves, and that this is the
same concept.
“Taxpayers pay for stupid
people all the time,” Stutman
said. “Marijuana should be no
different.”
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Feds initiate scam investigation
Financial scams
target university
students through
credit cards
tammy bain
dn
The Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau on Jan. 31 announced plans
to launch an investigation into the
impact of products marketed to students through colleges and universities, the CFPB said in a press release.
In 2009, the Credit CARD Act
ended certain practices used by financial institutions at colleges, like
giving out “tangible items,” or prizes,
to anyone younger than 21 who applies for a credit card. The act also
restricted campus locations that issue card applications, and anyone
younger than 21 who applies for a
credit card must now have a cosigner
or show the independent ability to
repay, said Rohit Chopra, the student
loan ombudsman and associate director of the bureau.
But CFPB officials said there is
less information about other products marketed to students, like banking accounts and debit cards. Now,
the bureau is asking students, families, people in the higher education
community and others for their feedback on student financial products
through March 18.
“With student loan debt topping
$1 trillion, students want to avoid
paying fees that get them deeper
in debt,” Chopra said. “We plan to
share what we learn from our request
for information about fees and other
costs of student checking accounts,
debit cards and other financial products with students so they can make
informed decisions when choosing

ASUN passes
voter guide bill

all the red stuff,” he said.
among these products.”
But Gentry said it’s not just
But Angie Kaipust, spokeswommarketing that can put a student in
an for Wells Fargo of Nebraska, said
Wells Fargo has never used the above trouble. He mentioned how college
seniors may buy a pricey car as soon
schemes when selling students a new
as they get a good-paying job.
bank account or service.
“They don’t realize how much
“Our company has never been
about offering gifts to people for money they won’t have,” he said.
“We’re always optimistic. We always
opening a credit card,” she said.
Kaipust said what Wells Fargo think it’ll work out.”
When it comes to scams, Gentry
likes to do with all of its customers
– student or not – is sit down with felt the elderly, who he said are often
less educated than college-aged stuthem and figure out each one’s finandents, are more vulnerable.
cial needs.
“(College students) are better
She said this practice can be to
educated than the
help students estabaverage person,” he
lish credit for longsaid. “They’re just a
term needs or just to
They don’t
naive with the
gain beneficial finanrealize how little
lack of experience.”
cial habits.
He didn’t see it
“Every conver- much money they
likely that a bank on
sation, every interwon’t
have.”
a college campus,
action we have is
such as Wells Fargo
seeing what’s in the
Jim Gentry
at UNL, would scam
best interest of the
unl marketing professor
students willingly.
customer,” she said.
“People
hate
Dr. Jim Gentry,
banks,” he said.
a professor of mar“They have to be very careful with
keting at University of NebraskaLincoln, said legal responsibilities are their image.”
Still, Gentry said there are ethiincreasing when it comes to marketcal practices that must be followed in
ing practices.
marketing, and he said some go for
“We’re not our brothers’ keepers,
but we should be more aware than “a short-run profit, rather than what’s
good for mankind.”
this one transaction,” he said.
“Most finance people, most marBut Gentry said not every marketing people are decent human beketing scheme is a scam.
ings,” he said. “You find a few who
He used an anecdote about a
young man who goes to college and aren’t, and they learn to make money
gets a credit card, unlike his friend in a hurry.”
Instructions
on
submitting
who doesn’t attend college.
“If he cuts it up and ends up in comments to the CFPB can be
found at its website: http://www.
debt, was he taken advantage of, or
consumerfinance.gov/students/
was he treated like an adult?” Gentry
whats-the-deal/request-for-informaasked.
Gentry said he has noticed mar- tion-regarding-financial-productsketing techniques used on college marketed-to-students-enrolled-ininstitutions-of-higher-education/
students.
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Wullschleger.
“When a bill like this had
been debated, it seemed like
it went on for an hour, if there
was any point you thought you
didn’t have enough information to make a decisive opinion,
that should’ve been sorted out
Staff Report
before we went into a vote,”
DN
Wullschleger said.
SB4 is the first piece of apThe morning after the Associa- proved legislation that will be
tion of Students of the Univer- enacted by the current Senate
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln voted that has an effect on the ASUN
down legislation at its Wedneselections. Previous attempts to
day meeting to include a voter
reform the election rules were
information guide for the upapproved by the senate but
coming ASUN elections, ASUN then vetoed by ASUN President
officials reviewed their consti- Eric Kamler, a senior agricultution and discovered Senate
tural economics major. The senBill 4 had actually passed.
ate failed to override the veto.
In order for the Senate to
Wullschleger
said
he
pass legislation, there must be a
doesn’t foresee any more legismajority vote. Twenty-four senlation coming to the senate that
ators were in attendance, so the would affect this year ’s election
majority vote was 13 approvals
season.
to pass legislation.
ASUN members are now
The vote on SB4 was 12 apcompiling the contact informaprovals, 10 against and two abtion of every candidate for the
staining from voting. However, ASUN election. Wullschleger
according to the ASUN consti- will lead the compiling and
tution, abstentions do not count
solicitation
toward the total
of the candivote.
date’s inforI did not
“The
majormation.
expect
ity is based on the
One unbinumber of votes, the legislation
ased person
not the majority
will be apof members pres- to receive the
pointed
by
ent,” said Sen. Mi- criticism it did.”
Kamler and
cah Wullschleger, a
approved by
senior English and Micah Wullschleger the senate to
anthropology major
asun senator
review
the
who submitted SB4.
voter
inforWullschleger stood
mation guide
up and left the room when his
for any obscenities before it is
legislation was voted down.
put on the website.
“I did not expect the legisThe candidates will be
lation to receive the criticism it
asked to provide their name,
did,” he said.
college, major, affiliated stuSB4 received criticism from
dent election group and posisome senators because they tion they’re running for. They
believed there wasn’t enough
will also be asked to say why
time to collect all of the candi- they decided to run for an electdates’ information. They beed position and what they hope
lieved that if a candidate failed
to accomplish in their term of
to submit their information, office.
it would be creating a bias by
ASUN will begin putting
only listing the submitted prothe information on the website
files. Some senators also said
after Feb. 19.
it wasn’t their responsibility to
“There’s a greater good
provide information about the
here in providing voters with
candidates.
adequate information,” WulThe two senators who ablschleger said.
stained from voting were saynews@
ing they didn’t have an opinion
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Career Services to
host professional
networking event
2nd annual reception
provides opportunity
for all majors to meet
with professionals
Lis Arneson
Dn
Students at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln will have the
opportunity to mingle with professionals from various organizations at the 2nd Annual Professional Networking Reception
on Monday.
The event, which will last
from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union Ballroom, is organized
by Career Services, Students of
Color Career Advisory Committee and the Multicultural Business Student Association.
Jake Kirkland Jr., assistant
director of Career Services, encouraged students to take advantage of the opportunity the
reception offers.
“It’s a good way to make
some
future
connections,”
Kirkland said. “You’ve got everything to win and nothing to
lose. You guys are in school to
gain a body of knowledge. Once
you’ve got the body of knowledge, what are you going to do
with it? These people are hopefully going to give you some
ideas as to how to shape it.”
Students will be able to engage with professionals in advertising, agribusiness, broadcasting, business, community
health, criminal investigation,
education, engineering, government,
graduate/professional
schools, journalism, law enforcement and others during
the reception.
Edwin Owusu-Ansah, a
senior biological systems engineering major and member of

the Students of Color Career
Advisory Committee, said the
networking reception is worthwhile for all students.
“You never know who you’ll
meet at these things,” OwusuAnsah said. “It will give you
a chance to meet professionals
and graduates in your interest
area.”
Some of the participating
organizations include Union
Bank & Trust Company, Creighton University School of Law
and KETV NewsWatch.
Even students who haven’t
settled on a major will get
something out of the networking event, Owusu-Ansah said.
“If you’re still kind of
thinking about your major,
you should definitely come,”
he said. “It might give you a
chance to find out what you
want to study. It will help you
figure out what you like.”
Owusu-Ansah said students
should dress business-casual
and can bring a resume if they
wish.
Students are encouraged to
RSVP at www.surveymonkey.
com/s/unlnetworking, where
they can also view a complete
list of participating organizations.
Kirkland
said
students
should take a look at the list before attending so they have an
idea of who they would like to
speak with.
“Come with a mindset that
you want to meet somebody,”
Kirkland said. “You don’t have
to go too far to have this opportunity – all of these organizations under one roof, at one
time. You have choices when
you get in here, and it’s in a relaxed environment. You can’t go
wrong.”
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Students finish 5th in tech competition
5 students use GIS
to plan wind farm
location in New
Hampshire

Teamwork united a group of five
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students for a fifth-place finish in
an international technology competition.
In the 2012 Smarter Planet
Challenge, an international competition for college/university
teams to create technology solutions, the team’s goal was to
find a place in New Hampshire
through a geographic information
systems (GIS) analysis suitable for
a wind farm and able to provide
electricity to a nearby city with
minimal cost and damage to the
environment.
Electrical engineering graduate students Salman Kahrobaee
and Dingguo Lu led the team.
Although the group didn’t visit
New Hampshire for their project,
Cara Wilwerding | DN
data collection helped them pre(Clockwise) Anthony Nguy-Robertson, graduate student in natural resources, Dingguo Lu and
pare, the members said.
David Gibbs, a second-year Salman Kahrobaee, both graduate students in electrical engineering, Tarlan Razzaghi, graduate
graduate student majoring in ge- student in natural resources and David Gibbs, graduate student in geography, stand in Othmer Hall
ography, worked on the system, a Thursday. The group took fifth place in the 2012 IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge for their wind
computer-based tool that helped farm suitability and planning study.
the team figure out where to place
the wind farm.
Members had to look for
Team member Tarlan Razzaa place where the wind farm
what is gis?
wouldn’t interfere with local ghi, a second year Ph.D. student
bird populations and would be studying GIS and remote sensing,
A geographic information system (GIS) is a way of
far away from airports and high said the initial idea came from a
interpreting and visualizing information to show
slopes, according to the final re- previous project that they worked
on, but the team needed to change
port of UNL’s team’s submission
patterns in the data. The data is collected, managed
it to fit within the
of the project.
and shared via computer. With GIS, researchers can put
Smarter
Planet
“We
really
(We were)
quantities, densities, locations and more on a map.
competition.
didn’t have any
“We
slightly
Source: esri.com
problems,” Gibbs
very proud
changed (the previsaid in reference to
ous project),” Razfinding the perfect of ourselves and
zaghi said.
spot for the wind being successful
with the project,” Lu said. “We
“My guess is probably not,”
In total, it took
farm.
have made some achievements
the members a se- said team member Anthony
After
gather- with the project.”
Nguy-Robertson, a second year throughout the semester,”
mester for the preing data, the team
Dingguo lu
Another reason they were so
Ph.D. student studying GIS and
vious project and
decided to place its
team leader
successful was because everyone
remote sensing.
then another sewind farm north of
had a science background and it
For their efforts, the team won
mester to finalize
Gorham, N.H., and
$1,000 for winning fifth place was an interdisciplinary project
their
submission
south of Berlin,
that connected students from both
and plans to evenly split the cost
for the Smarter Planet CompetiN.H., both of which are located in
East Campus and City Campus.
among all five members of the
tion. If implemented, the wind
the northeast part of the state.
“One reason we won was
team.
farm could power 25,000 houses,
Gibbs said they came up with
because we worked together,”
When the team members
Kahrobaee said.
the data together and mostly used
found out they won fifth place, Nguy-Robertson said.
Members are unsure if their
online reports from government
news@
they were excited.
project will actually become a reagencies that are public to everydailynebraskan.com
“(We
were)
very
proud
of
ality
in
New
Hampshire.
one.
ourselves and being successful

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mummies for more than 20 years.
Anthropologist Dario Piombino-Mascali of the Department
of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian
Identity in Palermo leads the Sicily Mummy Project, which looks
at uncovered details of how the
religious men ate and dealt with
death and disease hundreds of
years ago.
“Piraino 1” was a man in his
40s who lived in the late 1800s.
Reinhard said the bodies were
mummified by a process called
enhanced spontaneous mummification.
This process is when humans
aid the natural process of mummification by draining the body
of fluids and stowing it in a ventilated chamber, as well as stuffing
the body with straw or bay leaves
to help it keep its shape and ward
off odors.
“People recognized that deceased individuals would mummify if they were kept dry and the
flies were kept off it,” Reinhard
said.
Months later, the body would
be washed with vinegar, dressed
in its best clothes and then laid in
a coffin or hung on a wall.
Using radiology, Reinhard’s
team found that “Piraino 1” had
a form of cancer called multiple
myeloma that likely killed him.
After looking at samples taken from the intestines, Reinhard
and his colleagues found that the
man had milkwort in his system,
a plant with antitumor agents –
indicating that the Sicilian people
had medicinal knowledge.
Melissa Lein, a graduate student in natural resource sciences
with an interest in forensic science, helped to look at the milkwort pollen grains found in the
samples.
Lein used a process called acetolysis to get rid of cellulose and
stains the pollen grains, which can
then be put onto a mounted slide.
She said she hopes some of the
team’s pollen grains can lead to
new forensic science techniques.
Many aspects of the man’s life
and death can be obtained from
looking at the pollen grains, such

Study: Coming out
relieves stress for
LGBTQs
Conor Dunn
DN

Layla Younis
DN

Bryan knew things weren’t going to
change. He was tired of praying for
his attraction to men to go away.
“For a while, I wasn’t comfortable with it because I was raised very
Christian,” said Bryan, a University
of Nebraska-Lincoln student who
didn’t want to disclose his full name
to protect his family. “I was always
taught that this is wrong, that the
feelings are okay to be there, but you
can’t act on them.”
During the past year, Bryan has
gradually come out to his friends
and family, and he says he’s never
been happier.
Bryan isn’t alone. Being open
about sexual orientation can bring
emotional and physical relief, according to a study published Jan. 29
in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
Canadian researchers at the University of Montreal looked at 87 men
and women who identified as gay,
lesbian, bisexual or heterosexual.
All of the study’s participants were
about 25 years old. About half of the
participants identified as heterosexual while the other half identified as
lesbian, gay or bisexual.
The researchers found that lesbians, gays and bisexuals who were
out to others had lower levels of cortisol in their body’s systems. Cortisol
is a stress hormone associated with
chronic stress, anxiety, depression
and burnout.
The study also found gay and
bisexual men had lower depressive
symptoms and allostatic load levels
than heterosexual men. Allostatic
loads wear and tear on the body
from too much stress.
“Once they relieve the stress
of finding who they are, that’s one
less stressor that will weigh on
them,” said Charlie Foster, a mental
health practitioner for the University Health Center’s Counseling and
Psychological Services. “They could
eat better, sleep better.”
Men and women who aren’t
attracted to the opposite sex, or are
attracted to both sexes, often fear being open about their sexual orientation because of how they might be
judged, according to UNL LGBTQA
Resource Center Director Pat Tetreault.
“If people are afraid to be out,
then that means they’re living in fear,
and living in fear and always wondering if somebody finds out, that
just adds stress,” Tetreault said.
In her role as LGBTQA Resource
Center Director, Tetreault communicates with many closeted and open
students, and from her experience
and through a 2009 student survey,
Tetreault said more people are coming out at a younger age and families
are becoming more accepting.
The LGBTQA Resource Center
distributed the assessment survey to

the student body. Out of the about 70
students who responded, Tetreault
said the students who were out had
a better perspective of the campus
climate at UNL.
“There’s a difference between
being out and living openly,” she
said. “A lot of students said (in the
survey) that they’re out to the friends
they hang out with. Maybe someone
in their family knows. It doesn’t
mean that they’re always coming out
all the time.”
Tetreault said it’s difficult for
people to come out if they’ve grown
up in an environment where people
have negative attitudes toward gay
and lesbian people.
She also said it’s easier for people to come out in college.
“When you come to college, that
gives you a little more freedom and
you have more access to information,” she said.
Bryan is a sophomore and identifies as bisexual. Foster said it can be
more difficult for a bisexual to come
out than for gays and lesbians.
“It’s really hard because people
who really are bisexual are being sort of judged for not saying
they’re one way or the other,” Foster said. “That’s part of their journey. You don’t know them fully,
you don’t live in their head.”
Since coming out, he has also
met and begun dating his boyfriend of several months, who is
also a student at UNL.
Bryan said he has been blessed
for not being judged harshly by
those around him. However, his
mother and grandparents still
don’t see eye-to-eye with him on
his sexuality due to their faith. He
said they are okay with his attraction for men, but that he should
“give his feelings away to God”
and not act upon them.
“I prayed for change for so
long, and it never came,” Bryan
said. “I finally have the reassurance I’m doing the right thing. It’s
not something that’s going to go
away, and it’s not something I’m
going to deny any longer.”
Foster said she is excited research is being done on the health
aspects of coming out. Both Tetreault and Foster said there hasn’t
been a lot of research done on the
well-being of LGBTQ populations.
“We can explain the stress
there, but I don’t think we can give
a magical answer that’s going to
make it easier for people to come
out,” Foster said.
Bryan’s advice for other students struggling with coming out
is to do what is right for them.
“Your mom is going to take the
burden and pain she wants to,” he
said. “It’s her fault if she wants to
hurt herself with this, but you cannot hide yourself to make her happy.
I’m just letting her take her time, and
in her time, it’ll happen.”
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sidewalk UPDATE
Staff of Lincoln’s Public Works and Utilities Department on Thursday worked with a contractor
to create a pedestrian path on the section of 8th
Street that was without sidewalks the day before.
Contractors blocked off parking, put up fencing and
created a protected pedestrian path on the northwest corner of 8th and Q streets, said Roger Figard,
a Lincoln city engineer.

bethany Schmidt | dn

After undergoing acetolysis, the sample, taken from the intestines of the mummy, was used to
determine the mummy’s seasonal time of death and his diet.
as what season he died in, what
he ate and the location he lived in,
Lein said.
“It is very interesting that you
can use just a simple pollen sample
and find so many things,” Lein said.
Pollen wasn’t all Reinhard’s
team found in the mummy.
The man was also found to have
a large whipworm infection involving more than 600 worms. This
parasitic worm was common in that
time period.
Reinhard said it’s possible to
have a large whipworm infection
without showing any symptoms.
“Whipworms have evolved
with humans throughout human
evolution,” he said.
One of the substances found in
the intestine was grape pulp, which
leads them to believe the man died
in the winter because that was a

It is very interesting that you can use just
a simple pollen sample and find so many
things.”

Melissa lein
Graduate student

time when grapes were commonly
consumed.
Sara LeRoy-Toren, a teacher in
Lincoln Public Schools’ Zoo School,
examined the macro remains from
the intestinal tract.
She said she enjoyed working
with scientists from around the
world.
In her examinations of samples
from the mummy’s intestines, she
was surprised to find evidence of a
natural sausage casing, most likely
pork.
LeRoy-Toren bought a natu-

ral casing sausage from a grocery
store, cooked it and compared it to
the sample. She also compared the
mummy’s intestine to the fragments found to make sure that it
wasn’t a fragment of the mummy’s intestines.
“What we discovered was that
it wasn’t human,” LeRoy-Toren
said. “It’s fun actually, if you’re
into that kind of thing. It’s like being a detective.”
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dailynebraskan.com

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DELIVERY!

cfa: from 1
hard to believe how much blame is
being put on the Daily Nebraskan
for the struggles they are having
which are almost entirely due to
the changes in journalism that are
being done and the shift to online
journalism.”
Also on Thursday, CFA members voted to approve budget pro-

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posals for ASUN and the Dailyer
Nebraskan. ASUN had proposed
an 11 percent decrease in student
funding while the Dailyer Nebraskan had requested to receive the
same 15 cents per student per semester that it currently receives.
news@
dailynebraskan.com

CFA meeting results
• CFA members voted on budget proposals for three
Fund A users on Thursday night:
• -Voted against the Daily Nebraska’ns request to
increase funding by $50,000, voting instead to keep
it the same at $108,974
• -Voted to keep the Dailyer Nebraskan’s budget the
same at $6,400
• -Voted to approve ASUN’s request for an 11 percent decrease in its budget

Everyone should
be protected from
domestic violence
This week, the U.S. Senate has spent hours debating whether
to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. VAWA was
instated in 1994 and greatly reduced sexual abuse and domestic
violence of women until it expired in 2011. Senators now want
it reinstated, but with a few changes. These additions include
protection for LGBT victims and immigrants, and would allow
for Native American tribunal courts to prosecute non-Indian
abusers. A GOP proposal to exclude LGBT victims and eliminate the Native American tribunal court rights was rejected on
Thursday. It seems as though this bill has truly brought out a
spirit of bipartisanship and equality in the Senate.
Not surprisingly, the bill has received nearly unanimous
support, save for a select few. Not only has Sen. Mike Johanns
declared he will not support the bill because he regards the
stipulations for Native Americans as unconstitutional, but Sen.
Deb Fischer was the only woman who refused to co-sponsor the
bill.
The actions of both our state senators are disappointing and
somewhat shocking. It’s especially unfathomable that Fischer
is rejecting the opportunity to co-sponsor such a necessary bill.
This bill isn’t meant to make one side look better than the other;
it’s not meant to draw party lines. The bill is meant to curb a
horrific problem that, unfortunately, affects many women in the
United States. By drawing these lines, our senators are basically
saying certain people deserve protection while others don’t.
All women are entitled to safety and if, for some reason, that
safety is violated, they are entitled to justice.
That is why we support the Violence Against Women Act,
and we think our state’s senators should, too.

Opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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Politicians need to be kept in check

H

ot damn, Nebraska can be a
funny place sometimes.
Speaking of “hot,” it’s been
getting that way in her(r)e lately. You’re probably aware by
now that our former lieutenant
governor is a philanderer of Woods-ian, Weiner-esque proportions. (Puns unfortunate, but
not intended).
Rick Sheehy, either the smartest or dumbest politician in state history – definitely the
smoothest – somehow managed over four long
years to attract four different lovers in four different places: Lincoln, Bellevue, Colorado (an
entirely different state) and Texas (an entirely
FAIZ SIDDIQUI
different country). This was unbeknownst,
we’re told, to everyone.
people involved in the scandal – at least five
Which brings me to my next point: damn.
women, and possibly some government offiSheehy purportedly engaged in this shamecials – did so too. As for our Casanova of an
less, borderline unsustainable infidelity from a
ex-lieutenant governor, after almost escaping
state-issued cellphone, apparently thinking he
scot-free in this elaborate scheme and remaincould partake in government-sponsored foo- ing a frontrunner in the governor ’s race as
lin’ around without consequence. Reports say these affairs unfolded, can you blame him?
the former lieutenant governor contacted his
Consider the correspondence on the very
“mistresses” a total of, not one, not two, but
incident in question for a prime example of
2,300 times during the period via that same
how we fail to hold public officials accountphone. Bear in mind that, as the term “misable in Nebraska every single day.
tresses” indicates, he was marOn Saturday morning, Gov.
ried through most of the ordeal.
Heineman held a press conferHis wife filed for divorce in July.
Sheehy,
ence to declare his lieutenant
And yet, the lieutenant govergovernor ’s resignation. The
it
seems,
nor would call these women up
announcement of a weekend
to two times a night. Sometimes took the people
meeting with reporters came as
he’d call three women in the
a surprise, but what followed
of
an
entire
state
same night.
should have come as an outStill, we’re told, no one for fools for four
rage. Heineman basically spent
knew. The governor had only
his time at the podium deflectwhole years.”
heard “rumors.”
ing the issue at hand, neglecting
“Let’s just say we had a conto even once mention the actual
versation or two and leave it
reason for his second-in-command’s deparat that,” Heineman said, before leaving it at ture.
“that.”
“I’ve got a knot in my stomach,” Heineman
This paragraph is brought to you by a Ne- said, vaguely, without specifying why. “I’m
braskan’s apparent inability to connect even
deeply disappointed. He’s done a lot of good
the most logical series of dots–dots that are
things for the state, but that trust was broken,
literally pelting him or her in the face.
and he’s resigned.”
The fact is, someone – everyone – got
It was only after the Omaha World-Hermajorly played here, and not just one of five ald reported on its investigation of Sheehy’s
women who will inevitably come to mind. cell phone records that we found out the real
Sheehy, it seems, took the people of an entire
reason of his ousting. Meanwhile, Heineman
state for fools for four whole years. And the
droned on about transparency in the most

opaque way possible: by obstructing the information.
“I believe in our public records and transparency in government,” Heineman said,
again failing to reveal the nature of the incident involving the man below him. “We, as
government officials, live in a very public arena, and that’s the way it should be. I believe in
transparency.”
The irony.
Even more disturbing was Sheehy’s response, or lack thereof, to the discovery of his
incessant cheating. Ever since news of the incident broke out, the former lieutenant governor has remained out of the public spotlight,
virtually unreachable by phone. He has yet
to comment on the incident. His Twitter feed
has been shut down. His phone has been disconnected. All this after he spent hundreds of
hours talking, talking, talking.
One might be inclined to think the state’s
decidedly shrewd, former lieutenant governor
has made a great escape, ran from his fate and
turned his back to the people he once served.
Prying into politicians’ personal lives is a nasty business – people should be free to pursue
their own romantic interests – but when they
hold their constituents in such low regard it’s
hard to sympathize with them.
For the people of Nebraska, surely victims
in this whole scandal, consolation might come
in the story’s latest development.
On Monday, according to the World-Herald, a state political accountability official said
Sheehy could face a fine and possibly jail time
for making nonessential personal calls on a
state cellphone. A bit harsh, but at least it’s
that all-too-elusive measure of accountability.
One thing’s for sure: In a state where politicians can openly obfuscate facts, ignore their
constituents and partake in frivolous extramarital affairs, an incident like Sheehy’s is
anything but isolated. In Nebraska, it seems,
there’s a lot more “funny business” to be discovered.
As of right now, I can think of at least 2,300
reasons why.
Faiz Siddiqui, like ex-Lt. Gov. Rick
Sheehy, is an eligible bachelor this
Valentine’s Day. Hit him up @faizsays,
or reach him at opinion@
dailynebraskan.com

University needs to invest in current students

f the university truly wanted to
become a leader in the Big Ten, it
would invest in its students.
Since the University of Nebraska-Lincoln moved to the Big Ten,
I’ve heard what amounts to the
grand vision for the university: 30,000
students by 2017, a new CBA building, a
new health center, the Nebraska Union’s
facelift, a new recreation center and additions to Memorial Stadium. This vision
has been proffered by university leadership as the solution to “becoming the university the state of Nebraska envisions.”
That would mean the university the state
of Nebraska envisions is one that prioritizes athletics and aesthetics over affordability and opportunities for students.
This plan doesn’t address the fact that
attending UNL is expensive, (but it’s a
“bargain”) and continues to get more expensive every year. It doesn’t address the
reality that once students graduate they’ll
be hurled unkindly into a job market that
isn’t prepared to accommodate them. It
doesn’t address the fact that they’re getting a degree from a state school with an
academic reputation for athletics. This
program will not prepare students for
the real world. Luckily, there’s another
option which makes a hell of a lot more
sense: The university cracks open its piggy bank and makes an investment – a real
investment – in its students.
By piggy bank, I really mean the university endowment. An endowment is

the accumulation of donated money and
property over an extended period of time.
According to a report from the Nebraska
Foundation, the non-profit that manages
the University of Nebraska endowment,
as of May 2012 our rainy day fund stands
at a modest $1.2 billion. Look hard at
that number. Write out all the zeros under the DN masthead. It’s worth noting
that, according to a report published by
US News, the average university endowment hovers around $300 million; there
are only 66 institutions with endowments
that exceed $1 billion.
So yeah, we’ve got a bigger phallus
than most universities. But like all dickmeasuring contests, this one is just as superficial. You might be thinking that, considering the substantial amount of capital
our university has on reserve, we should
be privy to certain benefits. For example,
a decrease in tuition or something equally as pragmatic. But we aren’t, because
U.S. university endowment policies are
bullshit. I’ll explain.
Unlike non-educational private institutions, universities aren’t federally
required to spend any of their endowment annually. Educational institutions,
private and public, are exempt from
a federal tax law that requires private
foundations to spend 5 percent of their
endowment annually, lest they face a
penalty. The thinking behind this law assumes (correctly) that unless a foundation is required by law to spend money

DILLON JONES
in “charitable and administrative purposes,” then they’ll just hoard the money
away like goblins because they can. Make
no mistake: All universities jealously
guard their endowments, ours included.
Now, if what I’ve written so far has
left you frothing at the mouth and ready
to phone UNL’s leadership in demand of
an explanation, I’ll save you the trouble.
This is what they’ll tell you:
“Unfortunately, endowments are a
little more complicated than you think.
The university is not able to spend endowment money as it pleases. The donors themselves often restrict donations
given to the university. We would love to,
as you’ve suggested, lower tuition costs,
but again, we are unable to do so.”
This is a sly half-truth. When universities get donations that go into their

endowment fund, these donations are often earmarked for specific purposes and
must be spent for these specific purposes,
thereby limiting the universities ability
to spend flexibly. But to say that the university has no say in how donations are
earmarked is false. The university and
the Nebraska Foundation actively solicit
donations. If you take a look at the 2012
annual report out of the Nebraska Foundation, they explicitly ask for “gifts” in
support of specific projects. Thus, the
university and the foundation have considerable influence in determining how
donors restrict their donations.
If you ask them why they feel the
need to sit on such an excessive amount
of money, they’ll probably say something
like this:
“The endowment acts as the university’s rainy day fund. The purposes of endowments are to provide very long-term
financial support for various specific or
general institutional purposes. The university wants to be prepared in the event
there’s a financial crisis.”
Translation: We are more concerned
about the financial security and collegiate
experience that future UNL students and
faculty members, who haven’t been born
yet, than helping you lowly students of
the present pay for college and access
experiences that might help you in the
immediate future. Also, we want to be
prepared for a fantastical rainy day of
apocalyptic proportions.

If the above translation leaves you
quizzical and a little sad, it should. The
fact that the university is financially capable of decreasing tuition costs for every student in the University of Nebraska
system, and keeping them low, annually
at minuscule cost, but instead raises tuition every year whilst languishing on an
endowment equivalent to the GDP of a
third world country, is inexcusable.
Just for fun, let’s imagine that the
university committed to lowering tuition costs every year. How long do you
think it would take to acquire 30,000 students? What if the university established
a series of grant funds that enabled every
student to take an unpaid internship, or
study abroad? These policies would benefit both the students and the university
in the long run. Students would have the
opportunity to attend college at low cost,
while taking advantage of programs that
enable them to acquire real world experience, and prepare them for the job
market. I have no doubt in my mind that
these students would become donors,
and give back to the university. Additionally, investing in students would make
UNL an irresistible destination, bringing in coveted tuition dollars. Everybody
wins. Therefore, invest in us. We are more
than worth the money.
Dillon Jones is a junior English
major. Follow him @doornut_
jazzy or email him at Opinion@
dailynebraskan.com

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The Los Angeles-based indie rock band Grouplove emerged in the international
spotlight in 2011 with their debut album “Never Trust a Happy Song.”

UPC announces popular indie band
Grouplove for 2013 spring concert
story by Katie Nelson

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or the past few years, UPC has brought various R&B and hip-hop acts, including
Mac Miller, Macklemore and Mike Posner to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
greenspace.
This spring, it’s out with rap and in with indie. Grouplove will take the Nebraska Union greenspace stage Thursday, April 18 at 8 p.m. UPC is still in the
process of picking out the opening act, but sophomore advertising major and UPC public
relations chair David Anderson promises the act will compliment the indie sound of the
main act.
“We promise … it will be high energy,” he said.
Grouplove surfaced in 2011 with their debut album “NEVER TRUST A HAPPY
SONG,” but they formed nearly two years before that. In a seemingly impossible twist
of fate, band members Christian Zucconi on vocals and guitar, Hannah Hooper on vocourtesy photo

There are big records and then there are monsters.
We’ll look for this one on VH1 in 10 years.

IF WE COULD CHOOSE A WINNER...
”We Are Young” (Fun.)

This category is made to reward popularity, and Fun.
found a pop stride in 2012 with a message that couldn’t
be more derivative, but a musical backing just different
enough to blur studio effect with a live presence.

IF WE COULD ADD A WINNER...
Ho Hey” (The Lumineers)

Folk pop, front and center. Here’s a song that attracted car companies and “Silver Linings Playbook” and 38
million YouTube views and came out the other side still
sitting raw and pretty.

Fun. is getting some love Sunday night, we can feel
it. If lauding Adele for a soulful pop Diva sound – harkening to a sad Aretha Franklin – was 2011, 2012’s best
pop was dominated by the Brooklyn boys, who highlighted electronic sensibility.

IF WE COULD PREDICT A WINNER...
We Are Young (Fun.)

The band crafted a hook that people simply couldn’t
escape, not that they wanted to. Grammy voters tend to
choose songs that make an impact on the year and they
will likely pick “We Are Young” over the other inescapable tune of the year, “Call Me Maybe.”

IF WE COULD PREDICT A WINNER...
Frank Ocean

IF WE COULD CHOOSE A WINNER...
”Blunderbuss” (Jack White)

IF WE COULD CHOOSE A WINNER...
We Are Young (Fun.)

IF WE COULD CHOOSE A WINNER...
Alabama Shakes

IF WE COULD ADD A WINNER...
“Shields” (Grizzly Bear)

IF WE COULD ADD A WINNER...
“Hold On” (Alabama Shakes)

IF WE COULD ADD A WINNER...
Ed Sheeran

Even a full year after its initial release, “Blunderbuss” still rings as a perfect embodiment of the latest
Jack White balancing act: that of the volatile rock star
and the new bowler-wearing Vaudeville troubadour.

Mid-year critics speculated “Shields” could be
Grizzly Bear’s coming-out party to a wider audience,
making it a Brooklyn-bred year in mainstream music.
Critical praise, yes, but we’ll have to wait on an uncomfortable, Justin Vernon-style acceptance speech from
Daniel Rossen.

Fun. deserves this one. With their homage to youth,
a night out on the town and hope for the future, the
band crafted a song that will live on through graduations and last calls for years to come.

The first single from the Alabama natives is a triumph of southern rock. No matter how many times
you listen, the song just doesn’t get old. While the song
has gained some traction recently, prepare for the next
single from the band to blow up.

What to watch for at the Grammys
What are the biggest storylines at
this Sundays 55th annual Grammy
Awards? If you can answer these
hot-button industry questions,
you’re ready. We tried, so now it’s
your turn.

Frank Ocean

If you could choose
one of Sunday
night’s performers
to spontaneously
combust, who would
it be?

Mumford & all three of his Sons.
They will play their banjos and
mandolins so furiously that they
will eventually pass the point of no
return. I’m not saying that I want to
happen. I’m just saying that it’s inevitable.

Frank Ocean vs.
Chris Brown in the
battle of life … Who
wins?

Well, one is clearly a musical
dynamo in a genre that people love
to see perpetually resurrected and
honored. The other is a spineless,
abusive hothead who starred in the
movie “Takers.” And didn’t even
survive the movie. (Don’t see “Takers.”)

But really, Will Taylor Swift ever get
back together with
that guy?

After a successful year, I think
Taylor has shown a lot of personal
growth. I can definitely see her reconciling and reuniting with the love
of her life, Jake Styles. I mean, Harry
Jonas. Sorry, Joe Lautner. Connor
Gyllenhaal?

grammys: see page 6

The R&B singer made headlines after coming out
and then proved his fame was worth more after releasing the well-received “Channel Orange.” Grammy voters will likely reward Ocean, and his fans, after such a
triumphant year.

The band’s debut album simply didn’t have a bad
song and perfectly fused together soul and rock ‘n’ roll.
Brittany Howard’s flawless voice is worthy enough of
the Best New Artist award by itself.

The star is already huge in the U.K. and with good
reason. Not only does the singer/songwriter have a
unique style of mixing acoustic melodies with rap, but
has also written hits for other artists like One Direction.

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Heavy metal fans might be looking for something warm to chase
away the winter blues and, if so,
a band from across the pond is
about to set fire to Lincoln’s ears.
In Flames, from Gothenburg,
Sweden, and is one of the bands
that pioneered melodic death
metal. They started in 1990 and
have released 10 albums to date.
The latest, “Sounds of a Playground Fading,” was released in
June 2011 and the band is planning to start work on a new album once this tour cycle has concluded. Despite lineup changes
since the band began, In Flames
is currently going strong with
Anders Friden, vocals; Bjorn
Gelotte, guitar; Daniel Svensson,
drums; Peter Iwers, bass guitar;
and Niclas Engelin, guitar. In
Flames will be play Saturday at
the Bourbon Theatre.
Daily Nebraskan: I’ve heard
that In Flames doesn’t write songs
on the road, why is that?
Daniel Svensson: Yeah, we
tried but we can’t. We focus so
much on the tour and it feels like
we want to close this chapter before starting a new one. We tried
once when we had a lot of touring,
but it didn’t really work out so:
When we tour, we tour and when
we write music, we write music. It
works best for us.
DN: Is there a difference between the sound of heavy metal
from America as opposed to the
sound from Europe?
DS: I don’t think the differences are as big anymore as it was
10 or 15 years ago. I think European bands are more melodic, it’s
like more melancholic in a way
and American bands are a little bit
more hard-core so-to-speak. But,
all these differences are evening
out. It’s so much easier now to listen to the bands. You don’t have to

cameron mount
Last Friday night, unsung heroes sat bleary-eyed and drained
as they completed an unprecedented mission: marathoning an
entire television series that had
never before aired.
Six hundred sixty-one minutes of Kevin Spacey, Kate Mara,
and Robin Wright – the stars of
“House of Cards,” which premiered on Netflix that day –
prompted a new way of thinking
about television consumption in
the age of streaming media.
A misguided approach to this
television model is to debate,
“I like watching shows straight
through” versus “I like anticipating each episode’s premiere.” For
Netflix, which spent $100 million
producing the first two seasons
of “House of Cards” for an audience that could sign up for a free
trial, watch the show, then cancel, the question is if this model
makes economic sense.
This remains to be seen, but
it’s very risky.
A show like “Breaking Bad”
gains fans when a particularly
intense episode (“Face Off,” “The
One Who Knocks”) prompts fans
to emphatically harass their
friends and family. Even shows
like “The Office,” long on the
decline and now in its ninth and
final season, have the power to
ignite conversations and ratings
boosts through controversial
twists, like the appearance of
Brian, the fourth-wall-breaking,
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By comparison, HBO reBut whether Netflix has cracked
coops about $7 a month from its
the code or thrown itself off a
30 million subscribers (though
cliff is a much finer line.
it charges more, half of its profcameron mount is a
its go to cable companies). This
senior english education
makes HBO fairly comparable to
major. reach him at arts@
Netflix, with one important difdailynebraskan.com

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WATCHING

“Oscar
Shorts 2013
Documentary
Program 2”

directed by:

shows on this touring cycle and
this is probably the last couple
of months we do on this album.
It’s always cool during the summer playing the big festivals in
Europe when you play in front of
like 30,000 people, which are the
highlights, but we also really enjoy playing these kind of shows
that we do on this tour with the
smaller clubs (where) you can
really feel the energy from the
crowd. We’re really grateful that
we can do all these different kinds
of shows.
DN: Do you have any good
concert or tour stories you can
share?
DS: I don’t know, not really.
We’ve been lucky. We just don’t
have any trouble or other crazy
courtesy photo stuff happening. I think we are
The Swedish metal band In Flames is currently touring their 2011 pretty laid back and we don’t realalbum “Sounds of a Playground Fading” across the United States. ly stress about shows. Sometimes
you fuck up but that’s how it is,
The band will stop at the Bourbon Theatre this Saturday.
you know: we are humans. I think
people enjoy watching you more if
you are having fun than if you’re
run out to the record store and buy old and we like all the old men
stuff now. Anders played with standing there afraid of playing
albums, you can sit at home and
the wrong notes.
Alice Cooper in Sweden, when he
explore in front of the computer.
DN: In Flames has gone
was playing Stockholm.
DN: In one of your past inthrough a few lineup changes
DN: What can you tell me
terviews you said that you like to
interact with the fans and then, about the upcoming show in Lin- since it started. What was that
process like? Also what can you
coln?
looking at the band’s Facebook
DS: I don’t know if we’ve ever tell me about the current lineup?
page, I saw that fans were submitAre things better
played there beting videos of themselves playing
than ever?
your songs. What can you tell me fore, probably not.
European
DS: We are a
Hopefully we’ll get
about that?
really tight unit,
DS: I just saw it today, that the chance to see
(metal)
we play so many
people can send in their covers. a lot of new fans
shows together and
We try to interact with the fans and hopefully give bands are more
we are like a big
them a good set melodic; its more
as much as possible and use sofamily. I think in
with a mix from all
cial media a lot. We want to give
the beginning, in
the albums. And, a melancholic...”
something back to the fans bethe early 1990s, In
cause they’ve been with us for so light show. This is
Daniel Svensson Flames was more
long and without them we’d have a tour with small
in flames drummer
like a pop band,
venues, but we try
been nothing.
side-project
for
to bring pretty cool
DN: I heard that, aside from
people. Then when
production.
music, you also really like golf.
In Flames started to tour, some
DN: Thinking of this tour,
DS: Yeah, Anders and I play a
lot of golf, unfortunately it’s not what are you most looking for- people couldn’t really stand tourward to or what is the best part ing, so that’s why people dropped
really the season now, but when
off. When In Flames released “The
we tour in the summer we, used about it?
DS: We’ve played so many Jester Race” the lineup became
to, bring our clubs. We’re getting

kind of steady. Then in 1998, when
“Colony,” came I joined and since
then, it’s been the same guys.
DN: Throughout your career
as a musician, what is the biggest
lesson or advice you can offer to
other musicians?
DS: I think it’s dangerous
to jump on trends. Trends come
quickly, but then they die in the
end. And, try to play as good live
shows as possible.
DN: In Flames seems to tour
quite a bit, about how many
shows do you play per year?
DS: Let’s say were away for
six months on average per year, so
yeah, pretty much half time away
and half time at home.
DN: What’s next for the band?
DS: We’re going to tour up
until the end of August and then
hopefully we’ll record a new album in the fall and winter. Then
release it next year sometime, so,
that’s what’s in the pipeline right
now.
DN: And then back on the
road?
DS: Yeah, then it starts all
over again. Hopefully start touring again next summer. That is the
plan, at least.
arts@
dailynebraskan.com
on twitter @dnartsdesk

Drug War lambasted
via first-hand stories
andrew larsen
dn
Since 1971, more than $1 trillion
has been spent fighting the War on
Drugs. The United States has 2.3
million people behind bars. Our
country houses 5 percent of the
world’s population and 25 percent
of its prison population.
While the numbers are shocking, they don’t truly show the scope
of human misery that occurs in our
communities everyday. They can’t
show the systematic, deep-rooted
racism that drives our harsh, outdated drug laws. The true horror of
the “The House I Live In” surfaces
when it deals with ordinary lives
that have been ravaged by the War
on Drugs.
Documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (“Why We Fight”,
“Freakonomics”) stumbled into this
project after reconnecting with his
childhood caretaker, named Nanny.
After discovering that her son died
by acquiring AIDS from using dirty
needles, Jarecki started asking more
questions about what kind of toll
drugs and the “war” on them have
really taken on our society. He puts
himself in the story, including a few
shots of him on camera, but it’s not
anywhere near Michael Moore levels of insufferable egotism. Jarecki’s
personal involvement actually aids
the telling of the story, as one can
sense the affection he and Nanny
still have for each other. There’s
also some guilt involved, because
while he was raised by two parents
and Nanny in an affluent suburb of
New York City, her kids were back
in Connecticut, ending up involved
in what many poor kids experience:
drugs.
Any impactful documentary
takes a stance on an important, polarizing issue and challenges the system involved with that issue. “The
House I Live In” does this through
powerful talking head interviews
with experts from various backgrounds. The most effective among
these is with former journalist David
Simon, now known worldwide for
creating the television show, “The
Wire.”
The acclaimed HBO drama was
an intense, often angry look at the
hypocrisy and failure of the War on
Drugs in urban Baltimore. Simon’s
frustration at the lack of progress
pierces through the screen.
“Let’s take a look at where we
are 30 years later,” he says. “What
drugs haven’t destroyed, the war
against them has. It’d be one thing if
it was Draconian and it worked, but
it’s Draconian and it doesn’t work.”
Another tenet of a powerful

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documentary is the ability to take
a giant issue and zoom in on a tiny
part of it. Jarecki accomplishes this
by focusing on a few lost souls, who
have now become part of the prison
industrial complex in America. We
follow one non-violent offender on
his day of sentencing and witness
him sentenced to 20 years in prison,
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laws.
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do an excellent job of conveying the
utter exasperation and hopelessness
many feel when dealing with the
War on Drugs.
If done right, a documentary
film can be more powerful than any
drama one could script.
Not even the best actor in the
world could match the awful sadness and despair dominating the
screen in this film. Eugene Jarecki
and company have delivered a bold
wake-up call to every American.
The war on drugs is not about the
“other”; it’s not about taking down
violent criminals threatening our society. It’s a war on minorities and a
war on the poor.
Quite frankly, if this film doesn’t
make the audience question its beliefs in our American justice system,
nothing will.
arts@
dailynebraskan.com

grammys: from 5
Over/under five
years until you’re
ready to hear “somebody that I used to
know” again?

Just under, maybe. It’ll be a long
road back for that song. If Gotye
wins and the song plays Sunday
night, I wouldn’t be surprised if the
crowd lets out a collective groan.

I’m gonna have to go with
World Music on this one. What does
that even mean?

Would you watch
the Grammys if it
wasn’t your job?

Would I watch the Pro Bowl if it
was on again this week? What was
the question?
arts@
dailynebraskan.com
on twitter @dnartsdesk

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Chocolate fair caters to adventurous sweet tooths
Madeline christensen
dn
If you’re flying solo this Valentine’s Day, don’t fret. Eating your
weight in chocolate doesn’t require a date, and it benefits the
Lincoln community too.
Chocolate Lovers’ Fantasy has
been the go-to destination for Lincoln residents with a sweet tooth
for 27 years.
The event, which will take
place this Friday at the Embassy
Suites, is sponsored by the Lincoln Haymarket Development
Corporation, a non-profit organization aimed toward preserving
the historical downtown Lincoln
area.
Diane Cunningham,
of
Burlington
Antiques
in
the Haymarket, has volunteered
as
the event coordinator for 10
years.
“Chocolate
Lovers’ Fantasy
was just something that was
created to try
and raise money
for the organization, and it just grew
and grew,” Cunningham said.
The annual event began as
a simple chocolate tasting in the
Haymarket’s old candy factory.
“It started out with maybe 50
to 100 people, and now we expect

more like 500 to 600,” Cunningham said. “There’s a silent auction
now, we have live music, different
chefs – it’s always changing.”
Regulars, The Darryl White
Jazz Quartet, will return once
again this year for live entertainment, but the rest is really a surprise, Cunningham said.
“We never know what the
chefs will do, and we won’t know
until they bring it,” she said. “It
makes it more interesting. We
have 15 chefs and they do everything from savory things to
sweet.”
And they’re
not just talking
cup-

grouplove: from 5
cals and keys, Sean Gadd on bass and
vocals, Andrew Wessen on guitar
and vocals and Ryan Rabin on drums
met in Greece at an artist’s colony. Although they decided to return to their
various corners of the globe, they soon
reunited and will bring their sound
someplace even more exotic: Lincoln.
The group has performed at various music festivals, including Bonnaroo, and claims two chart-topping hits,
“Tongue Tied” and “Colours.”
“We’re catching them at a good
time,” Anderson said.
Steph Meyer, the UPC grad assistant, said several members of UPC
suggested Grouplove when the organization was trying to choose the main
act for the spring concert. She said several students said they’d seen the band
before and said they were a must-see
event.
“The students are trying to take
this concert up a level from last year,”
she said.
And that doesn’t just include the
musical act.
Grouplove merchandise will be
available at this year’s show, and UPC

is working on a t-shirt for the event.
The program council is also reaching
out to more sponsors this year, in an
effort to create a more festival-like atmosphere.
“We want to build the spring concert as something the students look
forward to every year,” Anderson said.
Even with the expansion of the
event, Meyer said the cost is going to
be the same.
“We want to keep the budget the
same but bring more to the concert for
the students,” she said.
Anderson and Meyer said they
based their choice of Grouplove on
surveys they sent out to UNL students
last semester. Indie music was among
the top options submitted, although
Anderson added it wasn’t the only
popular genre, but those can wait until
next year.
“They’re (Grouplove) a very highenergy indie rock band,” Meyer said.
“You know they’re having a good
time on stage,” Anderson added, “so
they’re really fun to see.”
arts@
dailynebraskan.com

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sweet shop featured in the 2013
chef lineup, won “Most Delectable Chocolate” at Chocolate Lovers’ Fantasy last time around.
Chocolatier
Blue,
which
opened in Lincoln two years ago,
is no Hershey’s kiss.
Their assortment of chocolates, hand-crafted by Nebraska
native Chris Blue, comes
in flavors like passion
fruit caramel and vanilla rum and look more
like art projects
than boxes of
sweets.
Sean Blue,
owner
of
the
Lincoln
store,
said
the exposure
Chocolate
Lovers’ Fantasy
offers
businesses is
priceless.
“Especially for
a young business that’s trying to
get people to find out about them,
it’s great,” Blue said. “And having the event a week before Valentine’s Day is really timely.”
Last year was Chocolatier
Blue’s first time at the event.
“We didn’t really know what

to expect,” Blue said. “We had our
gloves on, ready to talk to people
and offer some samples.”
What they didn’t expect were
hundreds of people lined up at
the door with chocolate on the
mind.
“All these people rushed in
the second the doors opened,” Blue
said. “It’s big.”

Other participating businesses
include Lazlo’s Brewery and Grill,
The Mill, Russ’s Market, Le Cupcake, Venue Restaurant, Chefs on
the Run and more.
Between handfuls of chocolate,
there’s still time for attendees to
participate in a silent auction and a
raffle, as well, with prizes including
a year of beer from Empyrean Brewing Company and a year’s worth of
pizza from Ramos.
Dozens of sheet trays and thousands of chocolate confections later,
Blue is ready for another year.
“All in all, it’s a good experience, and for a great cause,” Blue
said.

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Nebraska men’s tennis player Tom Blackwell takes a hack in return to a volly during a recent match. He knows the Huskers have a
gauntlet set before them this weekend with VCU, Drake and Creighton on the docket.

VCU, Drake, Creighton await NU
Nebraska tennis
gets a pair of ranked
opponents, then instate rival Creighton
Kyle Cummings
dn
After coming up one match short
of a 2-0 weekend, the Nebraska
men’s tennis team is back in action Friday evening and Sunday
– this time hosting VCU, Drake
and Creighton at the Nebraska
Tennis Center.
“Going into (last) weekend
I thought we could be 2-0,” Nebraska coach Kerry McDermott
said. “I actually told the team I
thought both matches would be
super close.”
While the Huskers knocked
off Illinois State 4-3, they were
unable to hold on against Oklahoma State last weekend, losing
in the final match 3-4.
Coach McDermott said not
being able to finish last weekend
was disappointing, but he thinks
the loss to the Cowboys can be a
tool to learn from.
This weekend, Nebraska has
even more intimidating matches
as VCU ranks at No. 31, Drake

sits at No. 43 and Creighton, week. With three matches, McDermott said this weekend could
while only one match into the
also provide a chance for playspring season, is undefeated so
ers who haven’t had any experifar.
The Huskers, even though ence a shot to play, particularly
unranked, have a shot at finish- against Creighton.
But Creighton
ing 3-0 this weekwill not be taken
end,
McDermott
We have to
lightly.
said.
“Creighton
“We feel like
make
sure
has improved a
they’re both winton,” McDermott
nable
matches we take them as
said. “We’re never
against
those Drake and VCU.”
going to look at
two schools,” the
somebody who is
coach said, “But
not ranked as an
we’ll have to play
Tom
BlackWell
easy match. Our
a little bit better
men’s tennis player
guys know me too
than we’re playwell that we take
ing. We feel like
everybody
we
the two teams here
this past weekend, these teams play seriously.”
Tom Blackwell, who plays
will be better. How much better?
No. 5 singles for Nebraska this
Probably not a whole lot.”
season, is in his third year of
The biggest difference beplaying for the Huskers and
tween Nebraska and the Top 25
is consistency, according to Mc- knows Creighton brings just as
Dermott. If Nebraska can build much competition as they’ve
consistency, they’re a contender faced so far.
“If we take Creighton lightagainst any ranked team.
ly, they could be us,” Blackwell
Three matches in a weekend
is a ton of tennis, but the team said. “We have to make sure we
knows what is expected of them, take them as Drake and VCU.”
Blackwell has confidence in
McDermott said.
He gave the team a day off the team as well as himself this
from lifting to prepare for a long weekend, he said. Staying high
on the team becomes rather easy
weekend, but didn’t change any
sort of practice routines this when wins are flowing, and in

spring play, Blackwell is undefeated. He has recorded single
wins over Louisville, Illinois
State and Oklahoma State, and
a sweep this weekend, Blackwell
said, would let the team see their
potential as he does.
“I have a lot of confidence
in our team,” Blackwell said.
“I think (going 3-0) would give
everyone the same confidence I
have.”
The key to taking all three
matches this weekend, McDermott said, is grabbing the doubles point off the bat. Nebraska’s
doubles have not played as consistent as he’d like, but picking
up a win in doubles play would
greatly reduce the pressure on
the rest of the team, he said.
“If you don’t win that point it
goes from like 50-50 to like 20-80
with that doubles point,” Blackwell said.
Nebraska is set to open the
weekend with Drake at 6 p.m.
Friday, followed on Sunday by
VCU at 10 a.m. and Creighton at
6 p.m.
“The competition is a little
tougher,” McDermott said, “but
I feel like our guys can rise to
the occasion and hopefully pull
some upsets.”
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“Tuesday’s beam practice was
good, but Thursday’s was great.”
Kendig has been very pleased
with the way beam coach Heather
Brink and an infusion of depth has
improved the beam this year.
“This week there are nine girls
competing for the six spots,” KenMatt Duren
dig said. “I love that because it
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makes the competition every week
so great. They need to focus every
The No. 9 Nebraska women’s gymweek in order to get that spot.”
nastics team will continue its twoHaving so much depth also
week home stand Sunday, hosting
forces the girls to have the right
the Penn State Nittany Lions (7-3,
mindset each week, especially for
2-1 Big Ten) at the Bob Devaney
the six performers in the starting
Sports Center.
spots.
The Huskers (3-1, 3-1 Big Ten)
“Everyone on the team is makwill hit the mat at 2 p.m. looking
ing the one above work harder,”
to bounce back from their lowest
Kendig said. “You can’t get comoverall score in a win over Illinois fortable with where you are at.
last weekend.
One week you can be in the rotaPractice has helped the Husktion, and if you have a bad week
ers, according to sophomore Jessie
you will be out of the rotation. It
DeZiel.
can happen really
“We had a long
quick. But it makes
We
have
week of practice,”
us better.”
DeZiel said. “I
to show up
On the other
thought the team
side of the gym,
Sunday
with
a
did really well this
Penn State comes to
week. We are ready purpose.”
Lincoln after postto go this weeking a season-best
end.”
195.575 in their win
Nebraska
over Ohio State last
Dan
Kendig
coach Dan Kendig
weekend.
women’s gymnastics coach
also felt really good
The
uneven
about the last week
bars have been the
of practice.
event to carry the Lions so far this
“This last week has been really
year. The team ranks 11th nationalgood,” Kendig said. “I feel really
ly with an average score of 48.940.
good about where we are at, and
Leading the way for Penn State
I feel good about going into this is senior and 2012 Big Ten Gymnast
weekend. We have to show up of the Year Sharaya Musser, who
Sunday though with a purpose.”
has earned three all-around titles
Last week in the win against
in four meets this season. Her seaIllinois, Nebraska made their first
son best all-around mark is 39.525.
mistakes on the year in bars and
With Sunday being Pepsi Packbeam. That cost the team a higher the-House day, the Huskers are extotal score.
pecting a large crowd, something
“I thought they were just some
they welcome.
minor mistakes,” DeZiel said. “I
“For me, the bigger the crowd,
thought we worked extra hard this
the better the team performs,”
week and corrected them in pracKendig said. “The crowd can tip
tice.”
the momentum for the home team
Kendig says he is still not
in a big way.”
pleased.
DeZiel also says the crowd
“I think we still need to get a
helps the team perform better.
lot better in bars, but our beam did
“I think we as a team, love the
very good this week,” Kendig said.

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Nebraska Gymnast Jessie DeZiel performs a flip during her balance beam routine. DeZiel is looking forward to playing in front
of a friendly audience this weekend.
big crowd,” DeZiel said. “When
they are loud it makes for a great
environment, and gets us really
pumped up.”
Nebraska will open the evening on vault, then move to un-

even bars. Their second rotation
will take them to the balance beam,
and the Huskers will end the night
on the floor exercise.
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freshman Kolton Lapa.
Lapa leads the NU team in
stroke average, averaging a score
of 74 through 14 rounds of golf.
He and Dickson are the only golfers on the team who competed in
every invite during the fall season.
Dickson’s stroke average is 74.43.
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His best finish is a tie for third at
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the D.A. Weibring Intercollegiate
in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The Nebraska golf squad begins
Palmer, who was added durits first tournament of the spring
ing the offseason to the NU rosseason this weekend at the Conter, and Reinertson have yet to see
cessions Golf Club in Bradenton,
action so far this season. BringFla. It will be the fifth
ing a lot of experience
annual Big Ten Match
from the fall season
Play Championship.
is Record, who has a
The weekend constroke average of 74.72
sists of all 12 golf
through 11 rounds
teams in the Big Ten
of golf. The best finconference. The top
ish that Record has
two seeds heading
had so far this season
into the invitational
was when he tied for
are No.1 Illinois and
eighth individually at
No. 2 Northwestern,
the Price’s Give ‘Em
who came out on top
Five Invitational in
as last year ’s chamEl Paso, Texas, which
pion in Bradenton.
was the final invite to
gillick
This year the Huskers
round out the fall seaare seeded 11th in the
son.
bracket and will face
Although Nebraska is enterNo. 6 seed Purdue early Friday
ing the 12-team tournament as the
morning teeing off on the tenth
No. 11 seed, they are building on
hole at 7:10 a.m. CT.
success from the fall. NU placed
Purdue came in third place
in the top 10 four out five times
in last year ’s Big Ten Match Play in the fall including a first place
Championship when they eventufinish at the Fairway Club invitaally fell to the champion, Minnetional. Helping NU in that tournasota, in the semi-final round.
ment was Kevin Gillick, who tied
Representing the Boilermakfor first individually with a score
ers are senior Jakob Ziegler, junior of 219. He shot a 77, 69 and a 73 in
Adam Schenk, sophomores Justin
his three rounds. He is currently
Cho and Ben-Marvin Egel and
averaging 75 through six rounds
freshmen David Cooke and Jonaof play.
than DiIanni. Purdue placed top
The winner between the Husk10 in eight of their 10 invites last
ers and Boilermakers will face
fall, three of which they placed in No. 3 seed Iowa in the quarterthe top five.
final round on Friday afternoon.
This weekend the Huskers
Competition will end Saturday
will contend with senior Kevin
afternoon.
Gillick, junior Matt Record, sophsports@
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men’s basketball

Eight games
remain for
Husker seniors
Lanny Holstein
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the Huskers were embarrassed
by Braxton Miller and the Buckeyes 63-38. “But really, we have to
The college basketball season can get on top. We have to win more
go by in a flash, according to Ne- games.”
Winning those games is about
braska coach Tim Miles. One day
effort and focus, according to the
it’s a new season, and the next the
coach, and the Huskers have been
year is almost over.
below par in those categories eyes
With eight games remainthus far, he said.
ing on the Husker slate, Miles is
“We have to have that urgenstaring to think about sending
cy, and our younger
his senior class off the
guys owe it to those
right way. He wants to
(older) guys to make
get a few more Big Ten
it happen for them,”
wins for a group that
Miles said.
has carried his team
Playing a borderthrough their first sealine top 10 Ohio State
son under him.
team to the wire has
Miles said after
the Huskers believSaturday’s 63-56 loss
ing they can make
to Ohio State that he
a run of their final
understands what coleight games. Forward
lege basketball means
David Rivers said it
to some of his playmight just be the kick
ers, and he knows how
ubel
the team needed to
quickly a senior season
spark a few wins.
can go for those guys.
“I think it could
“These guys have eight cracks
give us a boost, but I don’t feel
at it left, you know,” Miles said.
“Pretty soon you are going to like (winning big games) is anyblink, and it’s going to be five. thing we aren’t capable of,” RivThen you are going to wake up, ers said. “I think we can do what
and it’s going to be two. Then you we did every night if we lock in,
because I am with these players
are going to be done, and all you
everyday, and it is just a matter of
are going to do is wish you were a
doing it and getting it done.”
college basketball player again.”
Talley doesn’t want to settle
For seniors Brandon Ubel,
Andre Almeida and Dylan Tal- for calling a game a “moral vicley, it’s been an up and down ca- tory” or a “boost” anymore this
reer. The trio saw early playing season. Time is running out on his
career, and he just
time under former
wants to win.
coach Doc Sadler
“We
played
We need to
but never achieved
better than we
the kind of success
win
out...
have,
but
we
they would have
know we can play
liked on the court. but really, we
this way, so it’s
As seniors learning need to get on
not a surprise,”
a system they will
the guard said.
only run for a year, top.”
“We are upset we
Miles said he apTim Miles
didn’t win.”
preciates the effort
men’s basketball coach
Miles
thinks
those players have
his team is right
given him.
there. He made no
After the Ohio
State game, he put down an ulti- predictions Saturday, but he did
offer a bit of positive foresight.
matum for the rest of the season
“We can play with these guys,
that will ensure those guys are
we can get over the top,” Miles
sent out on top.
said. “It is certainly very close.”
“We need to win out,” Miles
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Nebraska outfielder Brooke Thomason rounds the bases after
a home run. She tied for the team lead in round-trippers with
Tatum Edwards with seven in 2012.

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Husker doubles partners Patricia Veresova and Mary Weatherholt congratulate each other after winning a point. The pair are the
leaders on a team that swept its way into the ITA National Championship this weekend in Virginia.

NU to play in ITA Championship
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The time has finally arrived for
the Husker women’s tennis team
to compete in the ITA National
Team Indoor Championships.
This is the first time in program
history that the Huskers have ever
made it to this event, which has
been held annually for the past 25
years. The competition is hosted

by Virginia at the Boar ’s Head
Sports Club in Charlottesville, Va.
It is an elite tournament consisting of the country’s top 16 teams.
Play will begin noon Friday
for Nebraska and will continue
through elimination until Monday. The Huskers will face No. 10
Miami in their opening match of
competition. Miami is a seeded
team, sitting at the No. 8 position.
The Huskers are unseeded.

Getting to the ITA National
Championship is a result of two
things for Nebraska. The first was
earning a top 16 seed and hosting
the regional round of the tournament. The Huskers ended 2012
ranked No. 15, so they were given
the host title. Second, they won
the ITA Kick Off to compete this
weekend in Virginia.
Five conferences were selected
to compete. The Huskers, how-

ever, will not be the only Big Ten
team in Virginia this weekend.
They will be competing alongside No. 14 Northwestern and
No.15 Michigan. Big 12 teams in
the tournament will be Baylor and
Texas. The Huskers will see plenty
of familiar faces this weekend and
hope to come playing their best
games.
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New coaches bring squads to NU
North Carolina,
Alabama bring first
year leaders to Mark
Colligan Memorial
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The Nebraska track and field team
kicks off Mark Colligan Memorial
Saturday against two teams with
new coaches, but old legacies.
NU will be hosting North Carolina and Alabama for the Huskers’ third scored meet at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
“They have very long and very
glamorous traditions in track and
field,” Coach Gary Pepin said.
Pepin is unsure of any individual outstanding athletes the
teams will bring, but he is confident there will be good competition.
“Both of those teams have
real good athletes and coaching
staffs,” Pepin said. “I’m sure they
will have some athletes that will
give us real good competition.”
The North Carolina Tar Heels
are bringing four women who are
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ranked in the top 25 in the nation.
Husker long-jumper Mara Griva makes a splash in the Bob Devaney Sports Center sand. She and
Chrishawn Williams is ranked
11th in the long jump, Ariel Rob- the Huskers will host the Mark Colligan Memorial Saturday.
erts is ranked No. 23 in the high
jump, Briana Hudson is ranked
No. 24 in the triple jump and
after an injury in her knee preCameron Overstreet is ranked won six event titles and produced weekend’s performance there is
sure to be a close finish between vented her from running during
multiple season bests.
No. 23 in the pole vault. Some of
the last meet.
Mara Griva is tied for ninth in the two. London Hawk placed
the Tar Heels will be competing
“I’m recovering from a minor
third after Rush in the 600 meat the Husky Classic in Seattle, the nation in long jump, and she
injury,” Weekes said. “If I run all
ters. Elli Grooters placed second
is tied for eighth in the nation in
Wash. which will split the team
triple jump. On the men’s side, in the women’s 600 meters and of my events this weekend, and if
between two meets.
I run them well, I will be content
Janis Leitis and Pat- Shawnice Williams came in third.
Alabama will bring
with any time I run.”
Nolan Border won the men’s
rick Raedler contop competitors Sarah
I’m sure tinue to lead the Big 800 meter run and Jelena AndjelWeekes is confident she is
Thomas in the 60 meback to 100 percent after her short
kovic placed fifth in the women’s
in the jumping
ters, Krystle Schade in
they will Ten
time off.
800 meters. Jessica Furlan won
events ranked first
the high jump, Chloe
The NU men jumped 13 spots
the women’s mile, while on the
and second.
Hetherton in the triple have athletes
men’s side Conor Gibson placed this week to be ranked No. 14 in
In throws, Chad
jump and Wilamena to give us real
third. In the men’s 400 meters the USTFCCCA NCAA Division
Wright placed third
Hopkins in the shot
I National Team rankings. The
in the shot put at the Ricco Hall placed third, and Levi
put for women. On the competition.”
women are currently No. 34 in the
Gibson came in after Hall to finHusker Invitational
men’s side, Joel Lynch
Gary Pepin
ranking.
ish fourth.
and Veronica Grizin the 400 meters, Ken
track and field coach
This weekend’s meet is named
Dexter McKenzie placed seczle placed fourth in
Taylor in the 800 meters,
ond in the men’s 200 meters. The after former head coach Mark
women’s shot put.
Austin Duckworth in
Colligan. In his 20 seasons at NU,
Husker men’s 4x400 relay team
Christian Sanderfer
the 3,000 meters, Kamal
Colligan coached five individuplaced first and the women’s
placed third in pole vault. Carlos
Fuller in the long jump, Jonathan
als to 12 NCAA championships,
Hernandez came in behind his team placed fourth.
Reid in the triple jump and Elias
and 68 of his athletes earned AllJames White will be competcoach Dusty Jonas to place fourth
Hakansson in the weight throw.
ing at this meet after he missed American awards.
The Huskers are coming off in the men’s high jump.
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last weekend’s meet. Mara WeekTommy Brinn and Cody Rush
of a successful Frank Sevigne
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will run the 600 meters. After last es will also be back at this meet
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Hooper also surpassed 1,500
career points in the Husker win,
and finished with a game high 19
points and 7 rebounds. Yori was
glad she had Hooper to rely on
down the stretch.
“Jordan shot the ball well
early and made free throws and
had a big rebound late, which was
huge,” Yori said. “Yeah, we kinda
like Jordan on our team.”
It was an offensive struggle
for both teams in the first half,
each team shooting below 30 percent from the floor. Hooper began
the half with a three and a jumper,
pulling Nebraska out to a 5-0 lead
in the first minute.
From there, the teams traded
baskets for most of the half, until
Emily Cady hit two free throws to

The bottom line is, it’s a ‘W.’ You aren’t
always going to win pretty.”
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women’s basketball coach

finally extend Nebraska’s lead to
17-13. High pressure defense from
T’era Laudermill and Moore kept
Northwestern at a safe distance,
and held the Wildcats to shooting
just 21 percent (7-32). Hooper led
Nebraska with seven points in the
half, and Hailie Sample had seven
rebounds to help Nebraska out to
a 25-17 lead.
Both teams heated up in the
second half, Nebraska especially,
who went on a 10-2 run and extended their lead to 15 by the 13

minute mark. But Nebraska’s inability to score and Northwestern’s transition offense made it
a game that came down to free
throws and stops.
“The bottom line is, it’s a W,”
Yori said. “You aren’t always going to win pretty. It wasn’t ideal.
Sometimes you have to find ways
to win in different ways, and tonight, it was with defense and
field goals.”
Nebraska’s defense held a team
in the 50s for the third straight

game, and Hooper says she’s loving the Husker’s new strategy,
playing both zone and man.
“I really like it,” Hooper said.
“We just run around as hard as we
can. We’re aggressive with it, and
if you’re aggressive with things,
things work out.”
Just over the mid-way point in
the Big Ten season, Yori says her
players are tired, but likes the direction things are headed.
“Bottom line is, it’s not always gonna be pretty,” Yori said.
“It’s a long season. Our kids are
tired, that’s normal. And it’s not
that Northwestern wasn’t tough
tonight, they were, we were just a
little bit tougher.”
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Softball team
looks forward
to fresh start
After finishing 38-22
a year ago, Huskers
looks to improve on
first Big Ten season

all-conference selection, enters
her third year as a starter for
NU. Senior Gabby Banda, who
received All-Big Ten honors in
2012, returns to the infield.
Junior Tatum Edwards also
returns for the Huskers. She’s
the only pitcher on the team
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with experience at the collegiate
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level. Following Tatum is her
twin sister Taylor Edwards, the
After a season of unfulfilled ex- only All-America catcher the
pectations, the Nebraska softschool has ever had. Like her
ball team gets a fresh start with
coaching staff, Taylor is more
the upcoming season.
excited about the freshmen class
Coach Rhonda Revelle heads
than worried about it.
into season No. 21 as the coach
“We’re going to rely a lot on
for Nebraska, and if things go the freshmen, because there are
well this year, she will be the
a lot of them,” she said. “They’re
school’s all-time
talented, and it
wins leader for
helps they want
We
haven’t
all sports.
to learn and take
talked about in their roles.
Revelle is focused on what last year since last Even the freshis at hand this
men don’t feel
season. In 2012, year... It wasn’t
like
freshmen
NU fell short and necessary.”
anymore. It’s remissed the postally cool to help
season, only the
the younger playRhonda Revelle
second time in
softball coach
ers and see how
18 years that has
they progress.”
happened. They
Even though
ended up with a record of 33NU had a phenomenal season at
22, 15-1 when playing at home
the plate last year, holding a batin Lincoln. This year ’s returning
ting average of .294 and setting
starters along with the coaches many school marks, Edwards
haven’t dwelled on last season
still wanted to work on every
at all though.
part of the game including of“We haven’t talked about fense, during the offseason.
last year since last year,” Rev“I worked on my mentalelle said. “So many new people ity at the plate. I sort of had a
on the team, we felt it wasn’t
backwards season last year,” she
necessary.”
said. “I also want to do my part
The Huskers are optimistic and help communicate with the
heading into the 2013 season.
pitchers.”
Nearly half of the team consists
NU begins season play this
of freshmen, but for them this is
weekend at the Hotel Encanto
not a rebuilding year.
Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M.
“We don’t use the term reThey have two double headers
building at all,” Revelle said. on tap for the weekend beginning
“We have enough talent in the with matchups against Illinoisfreshmen class. We need to be
Chicago and New Mexico State.
more consistent defensively and
All in all, the Huskers are
more well-balanced. Excited to looking ahead at this season with
have more team speed. We have more anxiety than nervousness.
a lot of power in offense which
“Our expectations never
should help the defense.”
change,” Revelle said. “We exSix starters return for the pect to go to the NCAA tourna2013 season, and there is a lot ment and be in the hunt for a Big
of valuable experience return- Ten championship.”
ing to carry a heavy work load
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Robert Kokesh attempts to pin his opponent in a recent dual.
He has only lost one match this season, and that was to the
nation’s top ranked wrestler.

wrestled ranked grapplers in
into Sunday’s dual, the Huskers
three consecutive meets, James have had a recent spike of moGreen has met two top-five
mentum themselves. At the end
wrestlers in his last four matches of last Friday’s meet against
and Kokesh has defeated four Michigan State, NU freshman
top-10 opponents
Austin Wilson
in the Huskers’
earned a pin to
It was cool
past five duals.
give his team
But
Manning
the dual victory.
to
get
that
doesn’t see their
His teammates
recent gauntlets as win, but it’s just
jumped off the
Ihnen, Green and
bench in a flurry
back to work.”
Kokesh having to
of fist pumps,
go through some
but Ihnen said
Josh
Ihnen
of the nation’s best
they have setwrestler
wrestlers.
tled down since
“Some
other
then.
people are wres“That
was
tling our best guys. That’s how I really cool, a cool way to end it,
look at it. I don’t look at us bow- but I don’t think that it’s going
ing down to anyone,” Manning to have a whole lot of bearing
said. “Who cares if the guy’s on the rest of the season,” Ihnen
ranked first, tenth or 27th. That’s said. “It was cool to get that win,
someone’s opinion. Our guys are but it’s just back to work.”
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Wrestlers
head to
No. 2
Iowa for
next Big
Ten test
Nebraska to take on
the Hawkeyes in first
game since closing
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Nebraska guard Emily Cady dribbles up the court against Northwestern Thursday night. Cady and
the Huskers needed everything they had to hold off the Wildcats near the end of the game.

SCRATCHING
and

CLAWING

Husker women hold on to late lead in 55-50 win

Story by Chris Heady

T

he Nebraska women’s basketball team narrowly
escaped an upset Thursday night with a 55-50
win over Northwestern, despite not scoring
a field goal for the final seven minutes and
26 seconds.
The Huskers almost gave up a 15 point
lead in the final eight minutes, but free throws by
All-American candidates Jordan Hooper and Lindsey
Moore closed the game out. Nebraska improved to 17-6

(7-3 in the Big Ten) and won their fifth straight game.
“I knew it wasn’t over,” Yori said after the game.
“Northwestern came back down 15 against Iowa to win,
and earlier in the season they came back down 19 and
made it a game, so I knew they would make a comeback
at some point.”
Northwestern’s Lauren Douglas led the Wildcats
with 14 points and 6 rebounds, and was helped by Maggie Lyon, who had 12 points and two assists. North-

western (11-12, 3-7) has now lost five of their Big Ten
games by less than 10 points.
Lindsey Moore knocked down two free throws with
17.4 seconds remaining to put the game at 53-48, sealing the win for Nebraska. Moore made Husker history
twice Thursday, the first time for starting her 121st
straight game, more than any other basketball player,
and she also surpassed 1,500 career points. Moore finished with 16 points and four steals.

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A week after the No. 13 Nebraska
wrestling team closed its tenure in
the NU Coliseum with a victory,
the Huskers are headed to another
historic venue.
Sunday afternoon, NU hits
the mat at No. 2 Iowa’s CarverHawkeye Arena, which set an
NCAA wrestling attendance record with an average of 9,000 fans
last season and sometimes draws
upwards of 15,000 spectators.
“The atmosphere’s going to
just be awesome,” NU senior Josh
Ihnen said. “It’ll be packed.”
The Hawkeyes enter the dual
after defeating No. 3 Minnesota
on the road two weeks ago and
handing No. 1 Penn State its first
loss last week. Iowa (16-1) also
goes in as the last undefeated
team in Big Ten competition.
Nebraska (10-4) rides some
momentum into Iowa City as
well, having gone 4-1 in its last
five conference duals – with the
lone loss coming at Penn State.
“We’re looking forward to
building on the performances
we’ve had this last month. We’re
trying to get better, trying to get
10 guys better,” NU coach Mark
Manning said. “Iowa’s a good
team. It’s one dual meet. I’m looking forward to our guys competing.”
The Husker on the hottest
streak is 174-pound sophomore
Robert Kokesh, who moved up to
No. 2 in the country after his 22nd
consecutive win against Michigan
State last week. Kokesh’s only defeat of the season came against No.
1 Logan Storley of Minnesota in
December.
Kokesh gets another top-five
opponent this Sunday – Iowa’s
No. 4 Mike Evans, who defeated
Kokesh in last year’s dual.
The Hawkeyes’ lineup contains three more wrestlers ranked
in the country’s top five: No. 1
Matt McDonough at 125 pounds,
No. 2 Tony Ramos at 133 pounds
and No. 1 Derek St. John at 157
pounds.
Although Iowa has nine ranked
wrestlers, compared to Nebraska’s
four, Ihnen believes the Huskers
stack up better than it might seem.
“I think we match up very well
in places with them,” Ihnen said.
No. 8 184-pounder Ihnen has

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Huskers focus on effort as they take on PSU
I’d call it a good learning experience to
understand the mental toughness that
you need to play with every night out.”

Miles believes his
team can compete if
they bring the right
level of intensity

Tim Miles

basketball coach

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After coming up short against No.
10 Ohio State last weekend, 63-56,
Nebraska looks to change its fortune when it hosts Penn State at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center
Saturday.
The Nittany Lions come to
Lincoln with an 8-14 overall record and sit at 0-10 in the Big Ten.
And as if their last place standing wasn’t bad enough, Patrick
Chamber ’s team has also lost 10
games in a row.
However, their opponents
haven’t looked all that spectacular this season either. Nebraska
(11-12, 2-8) has had a monkey on
its back and lately its name is ‘inconsistency.’
Whether it’s been the latest
dreadful performance behind the
3-point line (12 out of last 44) or
a measly two wins in the conference, the title has hung over Nebraska’s head for some time now.
In their last five games, the
Huskers have gone 2-3 against
conference opponents, including a
season sweep against Ohio State.
Sophomore forward David

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Nebraska forward David Rivers drives on Ohio State’s Deshaun Thomas in a recent game. The
Huskers feel like they can compete with anyone if they give the right level of effort.
Rivers said the Huskers’ latest
game against a ranked team was

tougher to swallow. He said it was
hard seeing their effort go for not.

“I’m with these players every
day in practice, and I see it,” Riv-

ers said. “It’s just about doing it
and getting it done.”
Rivers, who began the game
scoring two points in the first half,
finished the match as Nebraska’s
leading scorer after dropping 13
baskets in the game’s last 20 minutes of play. The sophomore’s effort
didn’t go unnoticed by his coach.
“Rivers did not play well the
first half, and I thought he was the
player of the game the second half,”
Miles said.
While down 49-56 with two
minutes left in the game, Rivers
sunk a pair of layups and foul shots
to pull the Huskers within five.
Although the team went on to
eventually lose the game by seven
points, the defeat did help them
learn a few things about themselves, according to Miles.
“I call it a good learning experience to understand the mentality you need to play with every
night out,” the coach said.
Although its matchups against
Ohio State and Penn State did
have different outcomes, the effort
displayed by the Huskers in both
were very similar.
In its first game against Penn
State Jan. 19, the Huskers escaped

with a nail-biting win, 68-64. Senior Brandon Ubel drained four
free throws down the stretch to
help the Huskers leave Pennsylvania with its first conference victory this season.
This time around, it won’t
necessarily be who will sink in
the most shots, but more so which
team will miss the least amount of
shots.
Both teams will head into Saturday’s matchup last in the conference with Nebraska shooting 41.5
percent as a team, while Penn State
sits dead last, nailing 38.5 percent
of their shots from the field.
If the Huskers can play with
the same amount of effort they
played with last Saturday, plus
the poise shown in its first game
against PSU, they could see themselves back above .500.
Come tip-off Saturday, the
Huskers are going to have come
out of the locker room with the energy they left with last Saturday,
Miles said.
“If we can capture that lesson,
then we can come out and make it
happen,” he said.
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